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In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
So, let's just again, as I always do, because it helps me, take a couple of minutes and just enjoy the peace, the peace of this great day. So for those this side of the Atlantic, it's the quiet summer's evening which we've been blessed with. In America, it's the heat of the afternoon, but we're all celebrating the day of Pentecost. Remember in the liturgy that means we're participating. We're reliving that event. So, we just pray that our hearts are open, that we're attentive to what God wants to teach us, and that he pours into us his Holy Spirit to enable us to come to new life in the divine will. We pray for the coming of the kingdom in our hearts and in the world.
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Mary, Queen of the Divine will, spouse of the Holy Spirit, pray for us. St. Joseph and St. Hannibal and little daughter Louisa pray for us.
Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
So, let's bring us up just for a couple of updates on news. It's good to see Jillian's back from hospital. So, that's good news, but we still keep her in our prayers. I got a text from Derek this afternoon saying he was doing better. The pain was more under control. Um, so we keep him in our prayers and all all your intentions.
The retreat day seems a long time ago for me because I've been on retreat for a week. That went well and we've now worked out how we can broadcast that. um on Zoom. So, in future, we haven't set a date yet for the next one. In future, we will be able to send you links for those that can't make it. I would kind of like to do one because September's a long way away to do one so that uh my new priest can meet some of you and hopefully keep praying that he'll be open to learning about the divine will. That would be a great help.
And I was on a retreat for a week. I mention this because I think it's important and I'm going to give you some of the things I got out of it. Obviously, when you go on the retreat, you are seeing it as a background to the divine will. And it helped me learn a lot about the divine will, the human will, how they interact and what we can do to help us in our journey. It also turned out that in day three I was sitting at lunch next to a priest. It was a retreat for priests and bishops and opposite me was a prayer intercessor and I was mentioning to her about the divine will because something had come up and the priest next to me was that was his main spirituality. So I've got another priest who can join our list now um of those following it.
Why? What I'm not saying this was what the retreat was about, but it may help you. What in the light of the divine will did I learn last week that helps us especially in the light of Pentecost? Because Pentecost, if you think about it, is the culmination, the bringing to completion of the pascal mysteries. I used to get very disappointed that the octave of Pentecost has was abolished in the reforms in the late 60s early 70s. The Pentecost used to have a whole week of celebration which is still the case in the old calendar. But I begin to realize that perhaps what the spirit is saying to us in this is that as soon as we hear the mystery of Pentecost, the natural followup should be to go out. In a sense, it's something that happens and immediately it may appear we're thrust back into ordinary time. Although tomorrow we have the beautiful feast of Mary um mother of the church, but in a sense that ties in with Pentecost because no sooner has have the apostles and our lady experienced the outpouring of the Holy Spirit than they're out. They're going out to the people. They're not sitting in the upper room and saying, "Right, what are we going to take from this experience? What do we need to learn? Let's plan our our preaching. Let's plan what we're going to say. No. When the spirit moves, there's an automatic movement within us that if we're attuned to eventually leads us to promptness in response. St. Fastina said that she considered the quickest way to holiness was promptness to the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. And I think I was quite moved by the fact that the gospel we had today of the apparition in the upper room seemed to me to be a very insightful message that the church is giving us because Pentecost above all we must remember is not primarily about our consolation although it is that but fulfilling God's purpose and it helps us to realize how deep that purpose was when we see some of the backdrop to this feast.
So I've mentioned it before but not for a while so it bears mentioning again. There's a book by Alfred Edshy. Alfred Edshy E Der Hi M called the temple its ministry and services. He was a Jew who converted to Catholicism and through his great knowledge as a Jew of the temple, the Jewish services, he was able to explain how they tied in with what Jesus came to do. This has since become very popular with people like Bram Petra looking at the Jewish origins of the eukarist, topics like that. But Edsham was in fact the first to kind of do this to look at the Jewish feasts and services and show how God used them to prepare for the New Testament in Christ.
Because this is a great day for the Jewish race. They celebrate today what they see as the climax of the harvest. So they will be bringing their first fruits to the temple. It's also the anniversary of the giving of the law on Mount Si. So remember as the Holy Spirit is coming down in the upper room, the Jews who are out there and not only Jews but proelites, visitors from many different nations are focusing on this great festival when everyone was bringing in what they call their first fruits. So you gave to God the first reaping, the first picking of grapes to show God that you have trust in him. Because in those days and certainly in our country as well too in the agricultural sphere, those first fruits were normally used for replanting. They took the best of the crop to use next season to plant Aresh. So when they're giving their first fruits, it's really an act of trusting God, saying we trust in him. And so it's a celebration for them at Pentecost of trusting God. It's a celebration of the na the divine covenant. So for them the birth you could say of their nation. They look back to Mount Si and the ten commandments and Moses as a celebration of their national heritage. So you can see how that ties in now with what happens in the acts of the apostles that the law that was given on Sinai now is now replaced by the law written in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. As Ezekiel says, we will be given fleshy hearts. And the harvest is not now wheat and grapes and oil, but the first souls over 3,000 who convert to the church. So this is the church comes out of Christ's side but Pentecost witnesses the birth of the church.
So for us, of course, too, it ties in, and this was something Derek was saying, as the Pentecost witnessed the birth of the church, so we pray for a new and perpetual outpouring of the Holy Spirit in our times. And I believe that's already happening. That outpouring is already happening. Because remember the tendency, and this is something I'd fallen into, the tendency is to think that the immediate fruit of a new outpouring should be dazzling miracles and great signs and wonders. I'm sure they will come. But look at the fruits from the perspective of the growth in the divine will. And if you think about even though the movement is not particularly big at the moment although growing think of the first fruits though in the sense that just one soul practicing their acts their rounds reading the hours of the passion are finally giving back to God the glory he sought. So you could see yourselves gathered around listening to our talks, practicing your acts as the first fruits of this new Pentecost. Because when it comes, that outpouring is going to usher in the kingdom. Just as you could say the apostles were new wine, well, so I beg you pardon, new wine skins. Do you remember our Lord says new wine has to go into fresh new skins. So you could say the apostles are new wine skins. They are now receiving this outpouring and the whole church is rejoicing in that. And it ties in with us because we too should be rejoicing at the what can we say the new fruits those who were received at Easter into the church either baptized or received into full communion with the church. So the pascal mystery brings about growth.
So we could ask ourselves the thing really to ask ourselves is do we believe fully in the power of the Holy Spirit? It's a good question. Do we believe fully in the power of the Holy Spirit? The reason that question is important is that it is the Holy Spirit that enables us to put to death our human will. So everything if you've been following our lady's retreat everything she has been teaching us all the aspirations all the practices can only come through the power of the Holy Spirit. Only he can produce in us those fruits. And so in our journey we must really have a strong belief in the power of the Holy Spirit in the fact that he has called us and in the fact that whatever however we consider ourselves in our weaknesses that far from stopping him acting is precisely the place where he comes to be. You see, we can look at Pentecost and we can forget that those apostles in the upper room were not saints yet. They weren't saints. They were very much human beings with their own faults, their own failures. And if you remember from the ascension, even at that moment, some of them still struggled. that transformation so that they could go out without fear, with courage, inspiration came from a gift. Just like the divine will is a gift, the Holy Spirit was a gift. But notice how it completely changed them. But it changed them in their weaknesses. So one of the main things I took away from my week from my week here is that what it means when St. Paul tells us in our weakness is our strength. You see, we can listen to that and we can think that applies to everybody else. But not to me. Because when God talked about weaknesses, he wasn't really thinking of mine. He was thinking of others peoples who we probably think to ourselves, well, they're not really weaknesses, but mine are. And we can get into that way of thinking about things without realizing no the concrete matter today right now is exactly where we are. So that wounds, failings, lack of faith, lack of courage, all these things are not an obstacle.
Hence, just as Jesus appeared in the upper room, and it's important that we realize the gospel tells us the doors were shut and Jesus appears in the middle of them. Is that not saying to us that barriers we might put up that we might have are no obstacle to the power of the spirit? No obstacle at all. Otherwise, we tend to get into the way of thinking that once we've sorted everything out, once we got our act together, then we will be ready. But look at what we had the appearance at the lakeside in Galilee and Jesus's conversation with Peter. Remember Jesus builds the fire. So human, isn't it? He makes breakfast for them. No, little phrases like that should really impact us. That our God is very humble, very gentle, very caring. He treads quietly. He makes them breakfast. He builds a fire. I like to think that that was work he did. I don't believe he simply wished it and it all appeared on the lakeside. I think he imagine him doing it with his glorified hands putting everything together preparing not only for the apostles but particularly for Peter a scene where he's going to reassure Peter that everything that happened and that he had done is made good. We all know the story. Jesus asks Peter three times, "Do you love me?" And each time the word love is translated in a different way. I can go into that if someone would like to ask that. But Jesus is not telling Peter off. We our way of looking at Jesus can color our interpretation of scripture. It seems to me that Jesus is taking Peter back to the place of his betrayal. So as he asks him three times, do you love me? To make up for the three times he denied him, but he's not doing it in a way of somebody just telling someone off. He's doing it to actually reassure Peter that those things that Peter had done can be healed and put right and that he's still going to be the head of the church.
So in the divine will in particular, we have to see everything how Jesus acts with us. Everything means not only everything outside of us, what kind of day it is, what people say, but all the interior movements of our spirit for Jesus to say to us, be reassured, I am still with you. This is particularly important for times when we can be forgetful of our acts, when we can move out of the divine will, when we can do our human will. When we can get frustrated or angry or any of the deadly sins, but Jesus is there at each time trying to reassure us these things are taken care of. It's a constant appeal.
So we could say that Pentecost and the gospel reading we had at mass is telling us that the mode in which we need to operate is one of receiving. It's one of receiving with open hands the knowledge that wherever we are, wherever we've been, God has always been there. If we look through parts of our life, we're probably parts of our life when we think to ourselves when Jesus was very distant there. Louisa does this in the diaries. There's times when she says to Jesus, "But look, you've been away from me. You've been absent." And Jesus says to her, "How could I be absent from you? You share my will." But I veiled and hidden myself because that is the way we play these games. He actually uses I'm pretty sure he uses the word games that there's a hide and seek going on. Why? Because he has to teach us that we have to be constantly small, reduce ourself to nothing so that we can receive. Or if you go back to Thomas, you go back to Thomas and the time Jesus appears to him in a a week after the gospel reading today. And he said she he says, "Thomas, put your hands in the wounds, the nails. Put your fingers in the wounds, the nails, and make put your hand in the side of Christ." And we started the very first picture slide of the retreat before anything was said was the painting of Caravajio where Thomas if I if I was better technically organized I could have probably somehow share my screen with the picture but it's very moving because you see Thomas Slim literally it's so physical it's so touchy Thomas putting his hands in. And Jesus's breast is open. His whole shirt is pulled back. He's exposed. There's a gentleness which we can forget about Jesus. Of course, that's not to say there's not a firmness in Jesus, but he's always teaching us to look at his wounds and be prepared to allow his gaze to purify us. If you remember the last time I spoke, which is probably now a couple of weeks ago, we looked at the catechism. Sorry, the quote from Spalvi where Pope Benedict's talking about purgatory, but it applies to this life where the burning fire of Jesus's gaze purifies our soul. Hence the spirit has also when it comes at Pentecost to purify. Thus the image of the tongues of fire on the apostles heads. That tells us that the spirit comes yes to give us power, to give us freedom, but to burn away all the dross that remains.
So there's a number of ways you can look at the events of that Pentecost Sunday. One could be that the Holy Spirit so inspired them that they simply were driven out by his power, spoke everything he gave them to speak and allowed him to operate through them. That's certainly the case. But cannot that be added to by the apostles also experiencing being cleansed and being healed. And that that joy of realizing they were experiencing new life gave the impetus for them to go forth and tell the message. Patrick in our diosis and plan used an interesting phrase. I'm not sure whether it's his or it's borrowed but it was a good phrase I thought which is looking at mission as storytelling. In other words, I remember a professor that used to teach me in seminary. He was a professor of English and he used to come and give us some great lectures on the great literature of the world. And I remember he used I think it was Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale to say, "Evan, there'll probably be a lot of people telling stories to each other. Oh, how did you get here? You know, how did you end up here? What was your story?" Or maybe this all happens at the last judgment. We see everybody's story. No, how did your life work out? How did you end up in heaven? you know what was because we'll be really intrigued and you could say then in the apostles going forward and preaching of St. Peter. They're telling a story of the impact through the Holy Spirit that Jesus made on their lives. That they're proclaiming that he who was nailed and crucified is now risen and that power is at work.
Hence the miracle of the apostles being understood in different languages. So that everybody there from all these different nations by hearing the apostles teaching in their own language realized that what was happening here was that the Tower of Babel and the division of the world by God giving them different languages to speak is now healed. St. Augustine points out that and I'm paraphrasing but he points out that that miracle is still continuing. It's no less powerful a miracle than if the miracle of languages continued. So if I'd stood up and given my sermon and the Africans heard it in their language and the Indians in theirs and the Lithuanians in theirs, I'm sure everyone would have come out the church full of great enthusiasm. But what Augustine is saying is the real miracle is that we all speak the same language which is the church. So remember, we've been looking before the break. I've had this break at union and communion and how by speaking the language, which is the language of the church, even if I'm speaking English and they're hearing in English and perhaps translating in their minds, that's still a sign of unity. It's the same Christ, the same spirit. So if that's true on the level then of union in belief, union in practice, then the union Christ prayed for in John chapter 17 is the communion and union of wills. that everybody's will becomes one because they are open to the divine will operating in them. And if you understand that, and this is again an opinion, but it might make sense then why we're praying for a new and perpetual Pentecost. Because whatever Leo I 13th's intentions were and whatever John Paul II was inspired to do, it's clear that this new and perpetual Pentecost is going to be now a deeper union of will. People are going to be one just as it is in heaven. That's the essence of what we're all praying for. as Jesus says that they may be one that the love father you have for me is in them. And he goes further. He says this miracle that's going to be the unity of will is going to be what is going to convince people that the father sent Jesus. He makes that quite clear in John 17 that through this they will know. In other words, the nations will know what I've been teaching is true. That you sent me, that I've carried out everything you told me to do. So Pentecost therefore is a crucial feast obviously for everyone but when we see it in the light of where it is leading in our age we can see things coming together.
I'm going to take a pause there for a bit of water and have a break. So again, if you would like, I'll check the chat. If you'd like have a question or a comment, um, Brunell's given me the Italian word strategy, loving strategys. It does not mean deception or manipulation in a human sense. It is the creative way in which Jesus seeks to draw the soul closer to himself, overcome the soul's resistance, communicate his love, or help it grow in holiness. So that that's a lovely way of putting it. It's the way Jesus is so clever that games have an end. The game has an end. a bit like that beautiful scene in War and Peace. It's ages since I've read it. Many many few decades since I've read it, but I remember the hero Leo is playing, can't remember if it's chess, a game with the girl he likes. And they're playing the game, but the game, the end of the game is not the point. The point is their conversation that comes through the game. And that really is the central point of war and peace by the way. It's to do with those two and their relationship. Okay. Thanks Brella for that. Everyone can see that on the um chat. So it's a good idea to to look at that. Anybody else got any comments before We then look at conquering hindrances in this work. Okay, we will pick up part two.
So we see then the power of the Holy Spirit to work in our hearts to bring us peace. The prologue of St. Benedict says, "Let peace be your quest and your aim. Let peace be your quest and your aim." So the Holy Spirit then wants to bring us peace and joy. But what is essential from our perspective is to have hearts that are alive, that are open to that work, that we are prepared to fully allow ourselves to be transformed. So the apostles by their preparation meant that when the gift came their hearts were ready ready to receive and our lady tells us I can't I think I I um skipped forward to to look at the day that was relevant to this but she tells us that during the time between the ascension and Pentecost. She taught them all the things that Jesus had not told them. Again, that gives us an insight into Jesus's humility that he allowed Mary to tell them all about the hidden years, the conception by the Holy Spirit. All these details in the retreat day, Mary passed on to the apostles. And that meant they were so taken up by those details that it prepared their heart for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
So if we're not careful or doesn't mean we're not careful, but in any case, what can happen to us is that there can be times when we keep a part of our heart closed. Not necessarily all of it, but there's a part that we keep away hidden. If we use Theresa Avala's image, we could say that in our mansions, there are some rooms that are still not open to the light. They're there. They're closed off. The dust sheets are over the furniture. The shutters are shut so no lights coming in. And it's a bit like a child. I was thinking of this actually during my sermon. It came to me that when the child is has a wound, let's say if I look back to my growing up, we there were four boys before my sister was born and we used to have this track that went all around our house. It was complete. You could cycle all the way around, but it wasn't like nice tarmac. It was kind of grally things. So you'd be constantly like crashing, particularly when one brother Ben insisted on cycling the opposite way to everybody else. It caused chaos. So you would have cuts, grazes, all those sorts of things. But your first reaction is you don't want anyone to touch it. You first have to clean the wound, don't you? If and if there's a doctor or a nurse, please interrupt me if I'm saying the wrong thing. You have to cleanse the wound. You sometimes have to put disinfectant that stings a bit before you bind it up. But our reaction can be to draw back and say, "No, this this is painful. I don't want you touching it." And the parent or the nurse or the doctor has to persuade the child has to work with the child to get it to say, "Please, we really need to do this because if we don't, the wound's going to get infected and there's going to be problems. So, we need to clean it." Once the wound's clean, the ointment's put on, the plaster's put on, the child's relaxed. Even if it's in a bit of pain, it's relaxed. It's done. And we're a bit like that child. We can have places that make us act in isolation to God. We're not always, the reason I'm going through this in relation to Pentecost is we're not always aware of them. The Holy Spirit comes to reveal to us the hidden secrets of our heart. But I can't remember which scripture I'm quoting now. Someone could put it in the chat. But only the spirit of God knows the hidden places of the heart. We don't know them. We don't know them. Only the Holy Spirit knows them. So one thing we also need to do as we go along our journey is we want him to ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to us those areas which need healing so that the divine will can more fully live in us.
We had um one of the the main speakers on our retreat was Jay Kim. He is one half of the podcast Restore the Glory that I've mentioned before. He actually sounded very different. He's a very tall man, very manly man. He sounded, it was interesting, sounded different to when he's on the podcast. Why do I mention this? They did a great series early on on St. Peter. They did about four episodes looking at St. Peter's journey and showing how God had to bring them bring him through this process through wombs, through Peter's faults, through his denials, he's moved to eventually realize that his security lies lies in Jesus. It doesn't lie in him. There was an American that they mentioned that I didn't quite get his spelling, but he said something very interesting. This is worth pondering. Every temptation comes down to this one fundamental temptation. It's the temptation that the satisfaction of the deepest desire of the heart is totally up to us. I'll read that again. Every temptation, so in other words, if you look at all the different things where we have battles and temptations, it comes down to one fundamental thing. What we're tempted to believe is that the only person that can satisfy our deepest desire is our actions. We have to be in control of fulfilling the deepest desire of our heart. That's exactly what Adam and Eve fell into. Now that cannot be obvious for much of our life that may be something we don't really see or fall into. But it's what isn't it that exactly what our lady's been teaching us in these days now up to day 24 that the human will our lady tells us says to us that only it can really bring us happiness, pleasure, joy and peace. Therefore, you have to follow it. And as St. Thomas says, it's held out not as a sin but as a good. Because St. Thomas Aquinas says, even the things we choose that are sinful are done for a good we desire. So this is quite important. this bit I'm going through. So I'll just go through it again slowly. We're looking at opening our hearts fully to the Holy Spirit. We're saying that this openness comes when we're prepared to open up those rooms in our soul. They're often just parts. They're not the whole soul, but little rooms that we have which still need that light and that fire. But we've kept them closed because like a child we feel the wound will be too painful and therefore we draw back and therefore we don't accept the medicine that can heal us. If you think about it, you can see that all around you in many people you'll come across. Don't you often get that feeling. If only they would see the solution and you try and point it out, but there's a barrier because to accept the solution that will bring them peace is a call to move from self-reliance to godly reliance. That's the fundamental part. moving from depending upon ourselves to depending on God.
So what is an interesting exercise to do is when you feel tempted, when perhaps you fall to take a bit of time and to think what was the desire that I sought in that action? What was the desire I sought in this action? By the way, just as an aside, there's a very good book that deals with a totally different topic that uses the same principle. Alan Carr wrote a book, How to Stop Smoking. And my brother Greg, God rest his soul, he'd smoked since he was 14. He was a smoker. And because of his asthma he realized he had to stop. So he happened to read this book and he said it was an eyeopener because what Alan Carr says in the book is that stopping smoking is not difficult. Now if you say that to people they'll think you're mad. They go well don't you know how addictive smoking is? So actually Alen Carr proves medically as well that it's not that hard to get over that addiction. He says what you have to do though is address the issue why you smoke. Now that sounds a very simple thing but it has profound implications. So my brother Greg went through and thought to himself and I remember him telling me this as he was reading the book. He said, "Well, Dom, you know, I I think I I used to smoke mainly in the evenings and and why was that? It was because I felt a kind of an emptiness. There was something there that needed filling some time that needed to be um used up in a way that brought me comfort, that made me feel good, that didn't expose me to emptiness or nothingness. And if you think about that, that's absolutely if we went through some of the ways we fall, we could identify what we were actually looking for. What was the good thing we were looking for? It's just that we chose the wrong thing to satisfy it. And that can really change our way of looking at falls. Instead of looking at it the shame and the problems my human will kicked back I fell again say no there's something good here that I was looking for what was it what occupied me and that really helps us then to see choosing the right solutions. So once Greg had worked out that it tended to happen after he got back from work, it tended to happen after he's had something to eat because he felt, "Oh, I need to relax. I need to go out." Well, if you suddenly replace that with something something good and wholesome that occupies your time in a good way that produces union, the temptations lessen their power greatly because they were depending upon our desires to good things, to something we're made for, union and communion, truth, beauty, but that the human will, our Lady tells us in these retreat days, just chooses the things of darkness, the things that seem to satisfy but don't. Whereas surrender to the divine will means that God then becomes the one that provides us with rest, beauty, truth, fulfillment, union, communion, all these things. And bear in mind that he doesn't just do this spiritually. You see, we can listen to a sentence like that and think, "Oh, that just means more prayer." And one of the temptations the devil will get us to do is to try and pray in the wrong way too much and then we give up because we can't do it. Whereas Jesus also wants us to enjoy things. What we do becomes a prayer. Not just prayer, but anything offered up as a divine act, playing a game of chess, reading a good book, phoning a neighbor, talking to your grandma, learning an instrument. These are things that are part of our balanced human nature. And the divine will, great as it is, as St. Thomas says still has to build on nature. So one of the main things I don't know about other people but one of the main things I took after my week is don't think that the divine world does away with your human nature. The human nature is always us. We can't get rid of it. Thank goodness that's how we're made. So our human nature requires a balance. It requires good things. It requires rest. It requires joy. It requires having a drink. The divine will wants to operate through all those things. He made us human and he is has a human nature. So he un understands that. Think about Jesus himself. He multiplies wine at Kaa. He doesn't just make a few bottles. He gives them the best wine in great quantity. That's why I like the chosen. I think it's episode five or six, first season, marriage at Kaa. You see Jesus dancing with Peter and Andrew. In other words, he is like us. He's not saying to us, follow the divine will, but all those other things in your life, you have to just stop. And that can be a temptation. Whereas throughout the gospels, he has times when he has to rest. He has times when he has to eat. He has times when he has to have joy because he is the perfect human nature.
So Pentecost we should welcome because we want to invite the Holy Spirit in today to those rooms that need his light. So I thought we'd finish with a little prayer. I can guide you through to help us um on this evening or afternoon of Pentecost to allow this to have an effect not just in the words we've been listening to but in our hearts. So let us quietly close our eyes. And for this we always start from a pa place of peace. This is what Emanuel healing teaches us. Go to a place where you were peaceful with the Lord. It may be now at this moment where you have trust, peace, confidence and then invite the Holy Spirit to show you one aspect. Now one practical concrete aspect now that troubles you could be a fear could be a worry and an anxiety could be a need that's not been met. Could be a wound that's not been healed. But invite him in to open that room up, to show you that his touch is gentle, but that he wants now to take off the dust sheets, open the windows, let the light and the air come in to cleanse it, to heal it. And then ask the Holy Spirit if there was something in our past, something that created that wound, something we need to go back and pray for healing for. Could be something someone said to us, a way we were badly treated. But we want this healing because we want to be fully human, fully open to the divine will in every aspect of our nature. But remember, because we're doing this in the divine will, we're bringing with us tonight all souls, past, present, and future with us. We're asking the Holy Spirit to go into their souls to enlighten them, to impact them on this evening, to show them that making our own choices, our own dependence is what caused the wounds and that we need to surrender to God's plan for what God wishes us to do. So come Holy Spirit, pour out the fire of your love over those present tonight, over those that will listen in the future to this podcast, to this YouTube, and pour over them your healing power, so that they trust completely in you that you are the answer to every desire. And that allowing your will to operate in us is what not only heals us but makes us one with you that we share all things in common. So we give you thanks for the graces of the day. We pray urgently for the full manifestation of the spirit that you have promised. We pray for the world that it comes to realize the truth that you were sent by the father. May his blessing come upon you, the father, the son, and the holy spirit. Amen.